My First Big Break

            The story I looked at this week was from Media Bistro on YouTube titled, “My First Big Break” with Katie Couric.  Right off the bat I liked what she said.  She said, “People tell me that I want to become a news anchor and report the news.”  Her answer to that was that you want to tell a story right and share the details with your audience.  This relates to me a lot because it’s not about anchoring the news, but finding out details the audience doesn’t know about and share that information in your reporting as a journalist.  I enjoyed that part really well.  Then learning about where she’s been and what she has done makes me feel like there’s hope for me to land a job out in the real world.

            Katie has shown to be an optimistic, persistent person and she was able to catch her big break.  She moved her way up the ladder because she was a hard worker, and like she says in the video, “I’ve been told that the harder you work, the luckier you get.”  This could not be any truer to me.  If you are willing to go the extra mile and do more than you are told, eventually things will fall into your favor, and you’ll be the one anchoring on a big time news station or ending up where you wanted to end up.  Katie’s story is great for journalists to listen to and know what is to be expected of them in this industry.

Posted April 28, 2014 02:02

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